The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-08-05
WIN. r. GABLE & CO., 1902 ELE,
I4O2 eleventh AVENUE ALTOONA PENN'A

Mr.. c. A. McGonigIe, of Lilly, was in
town on Thursday on business
Judge Johnston and family returned on
Saturday from their visit TO Bedford Springs.
The Pringledale campmeeting near
Whmore, will be held this yeaI from
August 18th to the 22nd.
The wind blew the door in the Recorter's
| office shut on Tuesday last and the large
plate glass in the door was smashed to
| smIthereens.
Margaret S. Vaughn. wife of Mr.. 3. F
Vaughn, who was a resident OF this place
about fifteen years ago, died at her home in
Altoona on Wednesday last aged 90 years.
"A cyclone about the border Of Deerfeld
township and Chatham. Bradford county,
has ieve.ed grain to the ground and forest
and orcnard trees are torn up by the roots
Decatur township. Mifiin county, has
two citizens who recently held an eating
contest as to which could get away with the
most dried fish. One ate sixteen fish. the
other seventeen. They wound up by each
eating hve dishes OF ice cream.
Thomas Z Knox. colored barber who
was behaving badly on one of the street cars
Of Johnstown. was forcibly elected from the
car on Tuesday last by the driver Knox
landed on his head on the curbstone and II
was thought for time tha. his skull was
fractured, but II turned ont that his head
was too hard for the curbstoDe.
A Ia year old boy named johnson, resiG-
ing in Pittsburgh, who has been in the hab-
II Of sleeping on the hillside near his home
these hot nights, was so badly frightened the
other night by n practical 10 ker who wrap
ped sheet about him and set up an un-
earthly bowling, that he Is liable to die OF
brain fever.
William Robinson. Jr., who has been
driv ing the dray team for Mr.. j. G.. Lloyd,
Of this place, for the past two years, went
to Derry on Monday last, where he was ex-
amined by the railroad officials as to his
fitness for a fireman He passed the ex-
animation successfully and will get ON the
road as soon as a vacancy occurs.
Farmers and all persons who have any
land where the Canada thistle grows should
see that none goes TO seed. Cut them down
or dig them out. 1t Is said that coal oil OF
tish salt and pickle put on the roots after
they are cut OF will kill them. Try il and
DO not let them go TO seed, for when they
get start once they are a terrible pest to
get rid Of.
During a thunder storm on Tuesday
afternoon house at Empire mine. near
Philipsburg, was struck by lightning. OF
the inmates Jean Baptiste Boiere and his 10
year-old daughter were Knocked senseless.
The man was partially paralyzed and his
nose split open. The girls right side is par
alyZed, her lungs congested and it is feared
she will lose her right eye and, perhaps. die.
The Greensburg Record says: Henry
Clark and Joseph Jackson, hailing from
JOhnstown and Altoona, were arrested and
committed to jail on last Friday, charged
with attempting TO wreck freight train. 1t
Is alleged that while the train was taking
coal at Coulter & Huff's works, east Of town,
they drew a coupling pin, for the purpose
of causing the train to separate and collide
with force and thus produce a smash-up"
During thunder storm. on Tuesday
afternoon the residence Of Mr.. Alexander
Moore, in Blain City, was struck by light
ming. at the chimney on the east gable.
Passing down the chimney into the kitchen
il did little damage to some of the house
hold goods. Miss Jane Moore. who was in
the room, was severely shocked and slightly
burned on her left side. The chimney and
Notwithstanding was also pretty well
shattered.-Coalport Standard
While bringing some cattle from Indiana
county on Monday last, our butcher friend
Mr.. Joe Gutwalt, was so unlucky as to loose I
three steers, two black and one Durham.
They got into the woods near Simon's 1
Mill. in Indiana county, and he was unable /
10 find them. Any information as TO theiT 4
whereabouts, will be thankfully received by /
Joe. who will also "set It up to the person ,
giving him tie information the hrst time he /
gets bin across the line In this county.
Indiana uen will please bear this in mind.
Frank Horn. an Altoona boy aged
seventeen years. rude to GalIiIzin on Tues
day morning on a freight train with the in
tention Of visiting relatives. In getting of
at Gallitzin be was thrown against a car and
a compound fracture of the skull.
He was taken 70 the hospital at Altoona
where the physicians trephined his skull but
she young man failed to rally and fingered
In an unconscious condition until about ten
o'ciock in the evening wien hs died. He
was the son of Tbaddeus Horn, OF No 22O4
Thirteenth avenue, Altoona.
1t Is reported that the Hungarians en-
ployed at the coke ovens in the neighbour
hood Of GaIlltzin. went out on q strike on
Monday last. and that as q consequence
several hundred men connected with that
industry are now idle. 1t is also reported
hat Hungarian coke drawer, who went to
work for the Blair Iron and Coke Company,
regardless OF the strike. was murdered for
being traitor to the cause OF the strike
)ut we have been unable TO learn any
urther particulars.
p. S. We have since learned that the re-
port OF the murder is not correct.
New G.. A. X. Post at Ebensburg.